The global economy may still be poor,
but some categories are doing well despite the economic downturn. One
of those categories is video games. One of the most anticipated video
game launches of all times is set to happen this week with a new game
called Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The game is set to hit stores
Tuesday and analysts are predicting massive sales for the game.
Activision has a lot riding on the launch according to Reuters.
Some analysts expect the game to count for as much as 16 cents of
Activision's earnings per share for the December quarter.

MKM
Partners analyst Eric Handler said, "This is the one game that
could buck the economic trend for the holiday season."

The
game will sell for about $60 per copy and Activision is partnering
with 12 retailers including GameStop and Best Buy to hold over 10,000
midnight launch events across the country. Estimates peg sales for
the game at 11 to 13 million units by the end of 2009. Activision CEO
Robert Kotick expects the game to be one of the biggest media
launches of any kind of all time.

Handler expects that the
game will sell about 5 million units on the first day of sales and a
total of 7 to 8 million games the first week. Those sales numbers
would put the game ahead of last year's top title, Grand Theft Auto
IV. The game will carry an M rating for violence and blood. Some of
the most popular aspects of the Call of Duty franchise centers around
the multiplayer aspects of the game, which the new version is sure to
have.

GameStop executive VP Tony Bartel said, "By all
indicators, we anticipate 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' will be
the biggest entertainment launch of 2009, as well as the biggest
video game launch in GameStop's history."

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That was true up to around 2004. The first series to really start to chip away at that fact was the battlefield series (battlefield multiplayer didn't work decently until 1.4).

today, i play empire: total war, legitimate version, patch 1.5 and it still crashes 2-3 times a day. with 5-6 times serious graphical glitches.

I bought operation flashpoint 2 recently. Couldn't play multiplayer for a week, and it's still laggy as *hell* and he controls are very clunky for shooters. and guess what? it's a console port with no dedicated servers.

i bought champions online, which got nerfed into the ground the day after i bought it (3 days before launch, no refund pre-order), and it launched with a completly broken economy, crafting, all content above 32 (cap = 40), and nobody told us what the hell was happening until far too long after it happened.

i bought left 4 dead. same launch problems, couldn't play multiplayer worth anything. Also it's a great game now but it did launch very empty content wise. kudos to valve for the free updates and focusing on solid gameplay first, but still. With the revenue from steam and HL2 ep3 on the backburner they could've done better.

i've also seen WoW go from a relatively good game to a grind fest supreme. That and the split of starcraft 2 into 3 parts has me worried even blizzard might be faltering. Even with how big MW2 now is, it's still peanuts with what Diablo 3 will decide for alot of people.

The games still work, but barely. Also, they might still work, but what we have to endure to still call it "working" is far more then it used to. Hell any modern game crashes more within a week then the total amount of crashes i've seen from counterstrike, unreal tournament and quake 3 combined. And i used those games like heroin.

quote: i've also seen WoW go from a relatively good game to a grind fest supreme

???

While they have added levels, they cut the experience points required to hit 60 by a huge margin, like 40%. Also they have added Bind on Account gear that levels from 1 to 80 with you that not only increases in stats as you level, but also have bonuses which grant you 10% experience points gained per kill or quest turn in. There are two pieces with that bonus that stack for a 20% experience points bonus.

So in reality, it's easier and faster to level than EVER before. I know people who have rerolled and have end game raiding ready alts going in one months time. And that is NOT playing 24/7. The game is less of a grind than ever before, some say in fact, that it's TOO easy.

So I have no idea what you are talking about. WoW is a great game, sorry, 14 million something people can't be wrong.

Ohh noes, you must do some actual work to get the good stuff. Give me a break. If you are that lazy just go use some of your "hard earned" USD and buy them, gear and gold anyway. Though if you think rep, honor points, and rating should come quick and easy then MMOs simply aren't for you.

quote: Lvl 80 content in Wrath of the lich king is more like farmville on facebook, ur just playing it because you have nothing better to do.

I love when people make comments like this, and then I look up their character and they have NO significant hard mode achievments.

quote: Why should I waste my time with a "harder version" of the same raid? It's the exact same raid, same bosses, just tweaked a bit.

Unless you have your Nax protodrake, all your Ulduar 25 hard modes and that drake, and are currently working on Heroic hard mode ToC 25 boss kills, you don't have the right to say the game is too easy.

Your other point is just... well, impossible. Blizzard probably releases more content in WoW then any major MMO EVER. But seriously, it would be impossible for any company to make so much content that you never run the same thing twice. Give me a break. That opinion just reeks of ignorance. What do you expect ? A new dungeon and map zone every week !?